Product/Service

CatalystCommand Demand Management

Source: Catalyst International

Your goal as a retailer is to increase revenues, decrease inventories and improve margins by closely aligning your
supply with demand. But it's not easy to forecast the buying patterns of demanding customers for thousands of items at
multiple stores and distribution centers.

Traditional ordering and replenishment methods inevitably lead to
miscalculations, leaving you holding too much of what customers do not want and too little of what they do. The
unfortunate result is reduced prices, bloated inventory and lost sales.

Through the optimization of business processes and the deployment of CatalystCommand Demand Management, an
automated forecast-to-replenishment system, you can close the gap between supply and demand to reduce lost sales,
recover profit from inventory and significantly increase your cash flow.

CatalystCommand Demand Management is a point solution for retailers that leverages data from your existing ERP or transaction system to provide advanced
functionality in the form of demand
forecasting, inventory planning and
replenishment. The system reduces the
complexity associated with these tasks by
transforming the existing ordering
practices into a completely automated
forecast-to-replenishment process
(automated replenishment is optional). By
analyzing the level of demand at point-of-sale,
the system uses advanced statistical
techniques to:
Quantitatively determine the
impact of past promotions;
Define the forecast for the underlying
level of demand for the purpose of
modeling the increased demand
associated with promotional activity;
Identify causal factors that drive
your demand and model future sales
more effectively based on those
factors;
Constrain your forecast based on
extensive product capabilities,
Ascertain which and where stock is
required to improve availability,
eliminate waste and avoid
unnecessary markdowns;
Ensure that historically poor
planning does not affect future
demand forecasts.
The system transforms planning and
buying by creating highly accurate
forecasts - based on not only what has
been historically sold, but on what
would have been sold had the right
stock been available. The software
identifies the best way to distribute the
stock to each location and dynamically
recommends replenishment strategies
by iteratively evaluating actual sales
data and readjusting the forecast for
individual items. Dynamic control over
replenishment allows for lower safety
stock levels without sacrificing service
levels.

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